Word: earths
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...view the movement as primarily a social and anthropocentric one, much like the struggles against poverty and hunger. For we are not really trying to save the earth for the earth but rather preserve the conditions on earth that make it most favorably inhabitable by us. Climate change is not problematic to the earth: it will not explode as a result of increasing temperatures, and other forms of life will adapt and evolve (or not) to the changing conditions. However, climate change is immensely threatening to our species, because the floods, droughts and proliferation of parasites and bacteria harm...
...given this philosophy of environmentalism, one interesting question to ponder is whether or not we humans have a moral obligation to "save our earth." Does morality exist outside the network of human interrelationships, and if so, do we have a moral duty to protect trees or other animals besides ourselves? I recall one of my professors distinctly claiming that passing down an earth depleted in biodiversity to our grandchildren would be immoral. The loss of biodiversity has been a result of human encroachment on novel landscapes: as our populations grow exponentially, so does the need for inhabitable land which leads...
...newest cafe. But, what or who is Gaia? The pamphlet points to the Gaia Hypothesis surmised by a hippy British chemist named Dr. Lovelock. Lovelock posits the planet, Gaia, as a large harmonious being, of which all organisms are an integrated part. The fruit juice connection? "It's your earth freshly squeezed," goes the slogan. In exchange for a gift of $3.25, the earth is "yours" to consume. What would the original Gaia think of the trade...
...original Gaia was a femme fatale. Hesiod, a Greek from the 6th century B.C., tells her lurid tale in The Theogony. Born of the state of chaos, Gaia the Earth immaculately conceived her first brood of children, among which was the Sky, Uranus. Earth and Sky "united," giving birth to the Titans, the last of whom was Chronos, Time. Feisty Chronos, seeking to overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded...
...critics have not taken kindly to his ideas. A recent letter to the Times Literary Supplement attacked him for allowing theories that have been discarded by other disciplines, such as Freudian analysis, to be considered legitimate in the study of literature. By that reasoning, the letter claimed, the flat earth theory could also be useful to literary scholars...